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Author:

Saito, Satoru, 1973- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012001397

Title:

Detective fiction and the rise of the Japanese novel, 1880-1930 / Satoru Saito.

Publisher:

The Harvard University Asia Center,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

viii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Japanese fiction--Meiji period, 1868-1912--History and criticism.
Japanese fiction--Taishō period, 1912-1926--History and criticism.
Japanese fiction--Western influences.
Detective and mystery stories, Japanese--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-293) and index.

Contents:

The novel's other : detective fiction and the literary project of Tsubouchi Shoyo -- Allegories of detective fiction : Kuroiwa Ruiko and the refashioning of a Meiji subject -- Of crimes and punishments : the tribulations of Meiji students in the writings of Japanese naturalism -- Mysteries of the modern subject : the detective and the detective fiction framework in the writings of Natsume Soseki -- Rhetoric of disavowal : "secrets and liberation" and the specters of the West -- Detecting the unconscious : Edogawa Ranpo and the emergence of the Japanese detective -- Epilogue : The detective, the masses, and the State.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 345

ISBN:

0674065867
9780674065864

OCLC:

(OCoLC)758383794

LCCN:

2011048240

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)